Link to a Shadow
Chapter 2
- Shadow's P.O.V.-
I fail to comprehend how my impossibly adorable twin can be so hyper and sporadic in the morning...
...But he's cute, so that makes up for it greatly.
Anyway, my green-clad twin bounds down the obstructing stairs much quicker than i make "haste" to, saturating his wake with unecessary enthusiasm.
"Good~MORN~ing!" the owner of this voice everso sickeningly sings that i almost hurl last night's dinner over the stair railing.
Expectedly, much to my dismay, my loveable brother reciprocates. "'MORN~ing MOM~my!"
As i turn the corner after my sluggish descent from those troubling stairs I am greeted with the pleasure of grimacing at the sight of my Link leaping into the open arms of my retardedly giddy mother.
Navi... that bitch...
The two twirl around stupidly, although Link looks admittedly cute as always. My mother is the only stupid looking one to me, but I digress. I roll my eyes, loathing the attention that I'm not receiving, and continue past them as i rummage through the pantry for a quick, mobile breakfast.
"Good morning to you too, Lyric." the bitch greets blandly. I pause momentarily at the sound of my wretched name spilling sardonically past her lips that I believe are pursed mockingly, only to ignore my mother and proceed with my breakfast food endevors.
"Hey, Shadow. Pass me a Pop-Tart, please?" My twins voice lusoriously melts into my hearing as he directly exhales over my ear. Startled, my heart leaps, surging anticipation along my spinal column. I was so focused on ignoring that bitch that I hadn't realized when he approached my hindside...
... I inwardly chuckle at the joke I just unknowingly made.
Anyway, I snag the Pop-Tart box from the pantry shelf, only to find one remaining toaster pastry. Of course I pass it to Link.
"Thank you, Shadow-niichan!" he coos, but as I turn around he's already skipping out of the front door, saturating his wake once again with the overflowing, delectable enthusiasm that he is.
God... how I love him... I slightly smile at the notion. Thoughlessly, I follow.
"Lyric?"
My face slumps into an expression of bitter hatred again as I stop dead in the effervescent tracks my brother left behind. Slowly and quite dreadfully - as if it takes all the effort in the world for me to do this, which I feel it does - I crane my neck to meet the cerulean-orbbed glare of the wench that gave birth to us, Link and I. "Navi." i curse, embrodding it with colorful gems of rancour.
She eyes me carefully, staring me down like a lioness confronting a potential threat. "I'll be staying late again at the hospital."
As much as i dispise listening to this woman speak her sentiments brought a little happiness to my already heavy heart. I get to spend alone time with my brother, the most adorable twin anyone could ask for - Link. Awesome.
She didn't seem to be saying anything more than that, so I begin walking, but...
"Oh, Lyric-dear."
... That bitch has to stop me again. Violent tremors rush up my spine at her obvious mock affection as I wonder if the woman realizes that I have a cute twin brother waiting for me outside.
"Have a nice day, my son. I love you."
Navi... that bitch...
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My brother has wait outside long enough. Poor him... I hope he didn't miss me much. Quickly, I rush to his side, starting a pace that we can walk in stride together.
"Where's you Pop-Tart, Shadow?"
Anguish is lifted off my being at my lovely twin's concern. "There weren't any left... that's the last one."
Link suddenly stops, so i do too. He's staring at me all twinkly-eyed and increduously. So animated. Cute.
He ruffles the silver wrapping of the Pop-Tart, opening it and breaking off a piece. "EAT!" he commands, vehemently jutting that fragment of the toaster pastry in my line of sight, blocking me from the more interesting things in my life - him.
I stretch my mouth open sizeably, enclosing it over the presented piece of Pop-Tart, my lips slightly brushing over the tips of Link's fingers. I gaze at him as I do so, allowing my mouth to linger. He's staring back at me silently, but that blush that is gracing his cheeks is all the response I need. Nice.
"Is that... Navi's children...? Yes... Come, come." a scratching throat calls to us. The peddling street psychic, Deku Baa-chan, waves her gangly hand in our direction, annoyingly interrupting our little brotherly moment, causing Link to jerk away bashfully. Damn her. Normally, she lurks in the alley bewteen the flowershop and the boarding house... ten blocks in the opposite direction of where we're heading. What the hell is she doing her, in the daylight and all?
Link becomes transfixed on the eerie hunch-backed hag as if her crusty elderly being was dousted in magic, staring at her as he slowly make his way down the sidewalk towards her. The vile wench snatches links palms in her dirty one, and I swear to break them off at the wrist, but i restrain myself. Her fingers scrape overthe deep creases of my twin's squishy palm, "reading" them, i presume.
"...Yes... Yes, Yes! Today, your fortunes are scripted in the cosmos! Indefinately!" the peddler croaks. Link's beautifully blue eyes widen masjestically, astonished, I'm sure. I shake my head at the naivety of my adorable twin. "It seems 'Incest' lies in nearing paths for the two of you."
Personally, I don't think that's much of a fortune at all. Any on-looker on the street with good eyes and common sense can tell that I am quite partial to my brother and that these feeling may be mutual. Link does have yet to directly deny me, not that I think he will or anything... I just snicker knowingly as Link hollowly orates "Incest?"
For Link's enlightenment purposes solelly, I inquire blandly "What does that mean?".
Wildly, that crazed fortune teller hisses at us, snatching her hand away from Link's as if his burned with flesh-deteriorating acid. "One free fortune a day! You youngsters have your youth! If you're not paying, GO LOOK IT UP!" she screetches, coughing into our breathing space as we dodge it perceptively, then the mentally preturbed peddler scampers back into the depths of the dark allies.
"... Link, you're okay, right...?"
At the sound of his name, my twin turns to me with an oddly placed smile. "Yeah! There's something magical about that creepy Baa-chan."
I sigh, shaking my head disapprovingly, but I can't help smiling back. "Just make sure you wash your hands soon. You never know where that hag could have last been..."
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- Link's P.O.V. -
Shadow and I have just left the school bathroom, him throughly monitoring my hand washing techniques. It's such a pain sometimes how anal he is about clean stuff, you know? But you gotta love him... afterall, he did let me have the last Pop-Tart just now. Strawberry is our favorite flavor and he didn't even complain! Such a good brother!
Anyway, upon entering our classroom, a voice rings out over the crowd.
"Hey Green! Over here!"
I scan the noisey room for our Red-clad (alleged) doppleganger, knowing his voice well in contrast to all the others. In the front row, I notice the purple-garbbed Vio and... Vaati? Sitting together? Talking? Conversating? That's rather... odd... Anyway, he smiles softly at me and I nod back at him. Vaati scowls at us, Shadow and I, of course. We never were much of aquaintances...
I glance around the room again for Red, spotting him atop one of the desk in the back corner of the room, waving like an idiot to get my attention.
"Hey Red." I greet as I made my way, with Shadow in tow, over to my chipper friend. "Where's Blue?"
Instantaneously, Red's face faulters dramatically, his eyes glazing over with wettening tears. He's cheeks profusely and I notice that his eyes seem to be a little red around the rim.
"He's...He's..." Red stutters, gasping exaggeratedly. "He's not feeling weeeeeeeeeeellllllll!" and he burst into tears.
Shadow sighs in a manner that I read as annoyance as I chuckle awkwardly. I'm not the greatest when it come to handling crying people...
"W-Well... do you know what's wrong with him...?" I offer my concern.
Red sniffles noisily - causing Shadow, who isn't even looking at us, to groan in digust - and (unattractively) wipes away his piling tears with the back of his sleeved hand messily. Shadow groans more irritably from all the sounds.
"He-He said something about stomach aches and b-being really t-tired..." Red trails off, dotting the end of his speech with a big, wet sniffle. I laugh as Shadow opts for burrying his head in his arms.
In my opinion, his story, Blue's claim, sounds kinda fishy... Blue is known for taking frequented vacations during the school year. In my opinion, Rishu's needs to stop his distasteful blubbering, I imagine Shadow saying, which cracks a smile on my lips. Pouting, Red glares at me and I put my inward jests away.
"Are you sure about that...?" I quirk a brow at Red's pouting face skeptically. "Seems more like someone's just being lazy on a Monday morning."
"I'm serious!" Red practically shouts, frowning even deeper. "He sounded exhuasted! Who feels exausted first thing in the morning!?"
Shadow, from where he had taken his seat, uninterestedly lifts his head to give Red an inquiring look, similar to the one I'm dawning but with an added sense of dejected-ness.
"... You call him first thing in the morning?" we ask simultaneously.
Responsively, Red flushes to a color similar to that of the red on his stripped shirt. "W-We walk to school together he was a little late coming to get me, so i got worried... That's all!"
Shadow snickers a bit - about what? i don't know - before he redirects his boredom to elsewhere in the room. Pouting and flustered as it seems, Red swivels in the opposote direction, probably peeved that we (mostly me) aren't taking him seriously, but how can we when it's related to a non-serious guy like Blue?
"Uhh... we could go visit Blue with you after school if you want... Right Shadow?"
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- Shadow's P.O.V. -
"Huh?" I answer with the utmost interest. Are they still going on about Takeshi? It's not the first time he's skipped school, so why is Rishu still whining?
"I said we can visit Blue after school with Red... riiiight?" my twin repeats, although I don't really care for hearing it again... I have plans.
Just to mess with the whiney runt I sigh as if this little detour in my after school plans will ruin my whole day. "Who cares what's wrong with Takeshi? Why do I have to be involved in his little sick pranks?"
At my purposefully insensitive sentiment Link gasps in a way that says 'why did you say that!?', and Rishu suddenly jumps in my face, assulting my vison with red-ness.
"Shadow, you bully! How can you say something like that!? Weren't you listening!?" Rishu shouts, speckles of spit and what I'll assume to be his breakfast flying around his mouth as he does so. He has a really big mouth. For some reason, he's still yelling at me even though I already started tuning him out. If he'd just understand that I don't have much of an interest in him or his homosexual addictiveness to Takeshi, then he's sure to save a lot of breath... and breakfast.
Shortly after, red-ness is out of sight and green is all I see. I turn my attention to Link and he begins speaking.
"Summarized, Blue's 'sick' and Red's worried. All of Red's... overreacting-"
"I'm not overreacting!" the red-clad loud mouth interjects. Link continues as if Rishu never said anything.
"-has got me a little worried as well... maybe we should visit...?"
Link's features seem to be morphing into adorable mush, kind of like Rishu's face, except Link's is actually adorable. "So? What does this have to do with me, hmm?"
My twin groans, shaking my arm pleadingly. I'm not sure if it's to get me to stop saying insensitive stuff or to get me to say 'yes.' "Come on, Shadow! You know mom wouldn't let me go if you don't come too!"
I probably should just tell him about "mother dearest" staying late at the hospital today... or I can mess with him a little? I smirk sadistically. "Or we could just not go?"
"Naaa! Nii-chan!"
"Such a bully!"
"Fine, fine. I'll go." I wave my hand, dismissing the matter, although I'd much rather use the extra time we're wasting to visit this bum to spend with Link at home. Oh well. I don't want to be with on to put a frown on his face or wrinkles in his adorable, worrisome forehead.
"Yay! Shadow-niichan is the best!" my twin cheers insecantly, along with Rishu, who seems to automatically regained his bubbly nature.
"... Buuuuuuuut..." i draw out languidly, to build suspense. The two immediately stop.
"But what...?" Link tilts his head to the side, confused as to what the catch is. He looks valnerable. I think this would be a good time to test out a little of that "incest" theory Deku Baa-chan was gabbing about...